Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 24
pure genre; earlier theparticipants are usually mythological characters. The later red-figured potteryshows mythological personages seated or lounging on couches. On vases, as else-where, the sleeping-couch is of rare or doubtful occurrence. Cj., however, Y\]:,. 37, fmrn the death scene of British… … CHAPTER I CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FORMS For the prehistoric period direct monumental evidence fails us. We can infer prehistoricthat a ])eople which produced such works of art as have been found in the palaceat Cnossus, and particularly chairs of such a developed form as the one of stone inthe…
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